The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-08-02
HYPNOTIC TESTS.
WonderfuI Experiments Recently Per-
formed nv a French Phyaician.

formed by q French Physician.
Il Moulin does not put people to
sleep, but makes them obey his will
while thoroughly awake, says Paris
correspondent, describing some expert
ments in hypnotism performed in Paris.
He began by choosing his subjects
among the people who presented them
selves by placing his hand on the nape
of the neck. While talking to them he
inquired whether they felt an unusual
heat under his hard. If an affirmative
answer was given he knew he had a
good subject, and, while telling him to
stand up straight, soon brought him on
his Fnees by simply placing one hand
lightly on his back and another in front
of his knees.
1t was extremely curious to witness
the efforts made by some people to
keep their feet, but it was useless; they
had to 60 down on their knees. One
gentleman well known in Partisan
society was dragged around the room
among the spectators by NJ. Moulin,
who put that gentleman's hand first on
his shoulder and then on his head and
told him to follow him. When they
got back to the platform he told the
same gentleman, when sitting on the
ground, that he forbade him to rise.
Notwithstanding the most strenuous
efforts he could not rise until he had
received the magnetizer's permission.
One of the writers on the GasslOis
was operated on i'm a vet more aston
ishing manner. Placed at the extrem-
itv of the long hall. with his back
turned TO nj. Moulin, he was told to do
all he could to prevent his being drawn
backward toward the platform. He
used what seemed TO be almost SUPER
human efforts to stand where he was;
but soon his legs began trembling vio-
lently, and i'm spite of all he was soon
walking backward toward the OPP
orator.
After that every body was made to
laugh heartily by the same gentleman
being made to dance in IA most anus
ing manner. M. Moulin also fought a
mock duel with him. Asking for two
walking sticks, he gave one to the
gentleman, and, after crossing swords
with him, paralyzed his arm by his
will. After releasing his adversary
from that Instantaneous position nj.
Moulin told him that he defied him to
touch him with the stick. The operator
failed in this instance, for, after a
prolonged effort, during which the
journalist seemed to strain every
nerve and muscle in his body, he at
last touched NJ. Mouths chest.
The operator, however, won great
applause by recommending the expert
ment. He stood perfectly still and
offered, as before, no resistance but his
will or magnetic power. The gentle
man, with his stick, struggled. so to
say against the air; but he failed to
touch the operator. One of the ladies
present was then told by M. Moulin,
while she was sitting among the spec
tators, that he defied her to say
"Nebuchadnezzar" It was ridiculous
in the extreme to hear her try in vain,
till the operator gave her permission to
say the word.
The same lady was evidently good
subject, for M. Moulin, placing two
chairs in the middle of the platform,
sat down on one and then told the lady
she could come and sit down on the
other and lean her head on his
shoulder. She protested, but in few
minutes she was seized with a most vio-
lent trembling in her outstretched
arms. She got up and then
threaded her way among the spectators
in what seemed to be a nervous trance,
for she trembled most violently. Some
people thought she would trip on the
platform steps, but NJ. Moulin, who
was sitting quietly awaiting her arriv-
al, treasured them by saying: "She
can not fall; forbid her.
She sat down on the chair, and when
there seemed determined not to put her
head on the operators shoulder; but
in few moments she closed her eyes
and let her head fall. At the same
moment M. Moulin started to his feet,
and, blowing in her face, restored her
instantly to consciousness. Other
equally astonishing experiments were
made by NJ. Moulin on people who can
not be supposed for a moment to be
aceomplices 10 tiick.-London Tele-
graph.
A Touching incident.
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